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LAOP 2023 · No. 06
Arthur Valdez
I live with a proof point that I needed to work hard to represent my family, what we had been and what we could become.
Arthur Valdez
Arthur Valdez opened by spotlighting his Starbucks partners, including a DACA recipient who rose from barista to store manager. He shared his own path: raising his hand at 22 when a Walmart executive asked who would open a Mexico City distribution center, learning from Jeff Bezos at Amazon, and growing as a leader at Target. His mother left Cuba as a child on the 1962 Peter Pan flights, and he came out of retirement to finish becoming a complete leader.
Read the Forbes columnTake the Conviction Diagnostic. In three minutes, see where you've traded who you are for who the room wanted, and exactly where to begin reclaiming it.
His story starts where reinvention did: a family that left everything behind for a new country and refused to call it loss. Cuban Roots →
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